The Tower and the Hive
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4.5 • 13 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A LEGENDARY FAMILY
For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as The Rowan have used their talents to benefit humanity. As human civilization reached out to colonize the stars, the family led Earth to ally itself with the peaceful alien Mrdini. Together, the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, who once decimated entire worlds.
THE NEW ORDER
But there are factions on Earth who resent the power the family has accumulated. Now, with their goals of peace and prosperity so close at hand, The Rowan’s descendants face the looming destruction of all they have suffered to achieve…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Heres a happy ending to McCaffreys futuristic Rowan (aka the Talent) series (Lyons Pride, etc.), as Humans, their allies, the Mrdini, and the insectoid Hivers, who menace both, find ways to coexist. The main heroes are the Talented members of Federation Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the family that began the organization, but increasingly including different blood lines. McCaffrey provides an introduction, What Has Gone On Before, but its nearly as confusing as it is helpful. Fortunately, the narrative offers bountiful explanations of salient events and relationships, so all becomes clear as the story progresses. Few surprises are on hand, but the relationships among the parapsychically gifted Humans at FT&T are particularly well drawn, including the romantic subplots. Indeed, procreation is key, as readers follow the family dynasty of FT&T, the search for a solution to Mrdini overpopulation and the link between the Hivers queens and their spread to new worlds. The novel lacks the profound imagination of alien minds thats a hallmark of much recent SF, but it also avoids the kill-the-bugs outlook of such SF as Starship Troopers. Readers looking for intelligent, heroic adventure will find it here, and Rowan fans will be especially pleased at this felicitous closing of a popular SF series.
Customer Reviews
Another good read.
I love the way Ms McCaffrey wrote her characters and progressed these books, it felt like they were people whom I could get to know. Yes, some characters were not so well developed and a few appeared and disappeared far too quickly but most were good.
My biggest problem with this book was that it felt rushed at times. Certain characters and incidents felt like they had a much longer story that was not there. Also, how the Hivers problem was resolved felt far too easy and rushed so the ending made me feel like there was more that was left unwritten.
I think this book could have been either much longer or made into a subsequent book to make some incidents a bigger part of the story. Otherwise, I enjoyed the book despite the feeling it could be more.